Konstantin Grcic’s “Volumes” at Gallery kreo, London
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Galerie kreo in London presents the works of Konstantin Grcic in “Volumes,” through September 22. The works are sculpted into solid Bleu de Savoie marble and are defined by a rough finish which brings the contradiction between the natural and the man-made
Konstantin Grcic’s “Volumes” at Gallery kreo, London
Galerie kreo in London presents the works of Konstantin Grcic in “Volumes,” through September 22. The works are sculpted into solid Bleu de Savoie marble and are defined by a rough finish which brings the contradiction between the natural and the man-made.“A hole runs through the solid rectangular marble base of all the exhibited objects, wide enough for a broomstick to fit through such that two people can then use it to lift the stone. This detail is one that Grcic has applied to the six objects in the new ‘Volumes’ collection for Galerie kreo. Executed in solid Bleu de Savoie stone, the pieces all have the same circular void cut through their bases. ‘Volumes’ has no such straightforward domestic function. The floor-standing pieces instead remain open-ended propositions for speculative uses,” the gallery writes.Grcic is well-known for engineering his industrial designs down to the smallest detail. He saw this project as an exercise in simplicity, both in expression and construction. The idea was to create objects that could be made using a singular material, without added structures or supports — they are sculpted rather than constructed.“I instantly thought of these objects as made out of stone,” says Grcic. “As such they are cut away from a solid block rather than built up from different elements and components, which is my normal way of thinking and doing.”“‘Volumes’ conjures up other equally mute and monolithic structures which hint at functions that are unfamiliar or unknown. Consider flint axes from the Stone Age, clearly shaped into tools but now worn down enough to be confused with small rocks weathered by nature. Or the monolith most of us carry in our pocket — a black, shiny tablet that reveals its content at the touch of a thumb-print,” the gallery adds.Konstantin Grcic (1965) trained as a cabinetmaker at John Makepeace School (Dorset, England) before studying Design at the Royal College of Art in London. Since then he has set up his own Konstantin Grcic Industrial Design (KGID) in Munich in 1991, and designs furniture, objects, and lighting for a number of leading companies in the field of design. His clients include: Authentics, Comics, ClassiCon, Flos, Magis, Mattiazzi, Muji, Nespresso, Plank, Serafino Zani, Thomas Rosenthal, and Vitra.The exhibition is on view through September 22, 2018 at Galerie kreo, 14A Hay Hill – London, W1J 8NZ – UK.For details, visit: http://www.galeriekreo.com/ Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the exhibition.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
